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>For scripts, run them as cactiuser from cli to
			check basic functionality. E.g. for a perl script
			named <TT
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>your-perl-script.pl</TT
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			with parameters "p1 p2" under *nix this would look like:</P
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>su - cactiuser
/full/path/to/perl your-perl-script.pl p1 p2
... (check output)</PRE
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>For snmp, snmpget the _exact_ OID you're asking for,
			using same community string and snmp version as defined
			within cacti. For an OID of <KBD
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>.1.3.6.1.4.something</KBD
>,
			community string of <KBD
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>very-secret</KBD
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			and version 2 for target host <KBD
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>target-host</KBD
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			this would look like</P
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>snmpget -c very-secret -v 2c target-host .1.3.6.1.4.something
.... (check output)</PRE
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